Wayback Wednesday: Getting buggy with it

Nuclear fallout does the darndest things to insects.

Recently my Facebook account reminded me of this photo that I first posted five years ago when my wife and I were on a weekend getaway to Seattle.

At the time, the local science museum had an exhibit about insects, complete with this large robotic mantis that was disturbingly real.

I took my inspiration for this image from the "giant bug created by atomic testing" movies (Them, Tarantula, The Deadly Mantis, The Black Scorpion) that were popular in the 1950s and early 1960s when I was a young kid.